The Scent of God: A Memoir
 

The Scent of God: A Memoir

by Beryl Singleton Bissell

When Beryl Bissell entered a cloistered convent in New Jersey, she believed that God had called her to this way of life. At first blissfully happy, within a year she became prey to obsessive compulsions. Her vocation at risk, she overcame these disorders, and persevered for another ten years until returning home to Puerto Rico to care for her ailing father.
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Wonderful book that takes you from Catholic grammar school to the convent to Puerto Rico to a unlikely marriage, children, death and redemption

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